The appearance does not change

Five years ago, in February 2007, this made a rather strong impression. The same -sex world, American expansion, the OSCE as a vulgar tool for ensuring the foreign policy interests of the West - such words from the mouth of the Moscow guest in the West have not heard for a very long time, and the Russian leader dumped all these theses on the heads of the Bavaria gathered in the capital.

He stigmatized the plans of the Americans on the placement of the elements of the PK system in Eastern Europe. He convicted the West in an effort to prevent Russian companies in his markets. In general, the famous "Munich speech" by Vladimir Putin became a noticeable event of recent history and was initially regarded unambiguously. As a declaration of Cold War.

Five years later, to summarize the results early, for the world has changed a lot, but what is important to note without the participation of the Russian Federation. The Arab Spring, Iranian peaceful atom, the Crisis of the Euro - all these events come away from Russian borders and, for all its drama, prove that the Kremlin itself is no longer very actively involved in global political games. Therefore, the Cold War has not yet happened: on the contrary, with the advent of Obama, a sluggish reboot of relations between Russia and the USA began.

The speech was remembered for a different reason. Like the last, or something, a sweet touch to the portrait of our national leader. And if before Munich, the most inappropriate of the Western experts still suffered on the question "Hu from Mr. Putin?", Then after this performance their torment ceased. The painting with oil gained completeness.

And he himself (probably, in order to consolidate this image in the minds of enemies and partners) has not changed at all since then. Vladimir Vladimirovich repeated the main theses from Munich’s speech again and again - in various modifications, but far from retreating from the text. The next presentation of these ideas took place today - in a fresh election article published in the Moscow News newspaper. The author completely devoted it to the foreign policy strategy of Russia at the present stage.

This is an almost literal retelling of the Munich monologue - of course, with the adjustment for a while, the audience and what is called "new challenges" in politics. However, they fall well on the previous canvas, and if in Munich Putin stigered the West for interfering in the affairs of the former Yugoslavia, now he is talking about the export of "rocket and bomb democracy", exploring this topic on the Libyan example. The author needs an appeal to the fate of Gaddafi in order to justify the Russian veto when adopting the UN Security Council resolution in Syria, allowing Assad to continue the massacres of his compatriots with impunity. In short, Putin does not like Arabic spring, which from a purely pragmatic point of view seems not too smart. Nevertheless, new people come to power in the Middle East, and they are unlikely to forget about how the Russian leader evaluated the change of regimes in this region.

The article by Putin, as always, is huge in volume, but in it, as in the Munich speech, it is impossible to find a single good word about Western democracies. Only reproach at the addresses of governments and non -governmental organizations. Despite the fact that the author recalls closer to the end that Russia is "an integral, organic part of Big Europe," and "our citizens feel themselves Europeans." But all this is said only to once again beat a fist into a closed door, insisting on the cancellation of the Schengen visas, and to report that the third energy package adopted by the European Commission prevents our oil and gas empire on the old continent with the entire monopoly comporm - as Putin believes, as Putin believes. In Europe, they think differently.

But he does not call the Chinese to cancel the visa regime, although he does not call the Asians Russians. But he does not regret praise, painting the economic and political successes of a large Chinese brother. The author writes about the violation of human rights in "old democracies" as a well -known, indisputable fact - he, apparently, is not informed about everyday repressions in the PRC. In general, about the Beijing Comrades and the current Russian-Chinese ties, our gloomy appearance Putin speaks with such admiration that you are amazed directly. Despite the fact that the Chinese demographic threat in the foreseeable future for Russia may be much more real than all these paranoid fears before the orange plague and American Pro in Eastern Europe.

It is easy to explain it. The Chinese are not engaged in the fact that in the Kremlin is called intervention in our internal affairs. They will not say the words of the thin about Putin, even if tomorrow the opposition will be dispersed with water mixtures, and they will react to machine guns in the east wisely and cold-blooded, since they themselves have similar experience. From America and Europe, you will not get such an understanding, and this is the unraveling of the multi -vector Russian foreign policy. As well as the meaning and pathos of Putin articles and speeches on a given topic. His preferences and resentment.

... Then, five years ago, the strong and weak of this world went from Munich in a very bad mood. After the Putin’s speeches, the world did not increase in the world. On the contrary, this world has become even more dangerous. Living in it, feeling the close presence of the Russian national veclider, has become much more unpleasant. As in the Cold War. The world is changing - Putin's Russia is unchanged, such was a more or less general verdict, confirmed a year and a half later in Georgia.

Today there will be no such painful reaction. The world has already been injured in Vladimir Vladimirovich, and his conceptual article will not amaze anyone, not upset or frighten. It’s just that the world has other concerns, and almost no one wants to aggravate them, polemicizing with Putin. And with Syria and Ahmadinejad, and even more so with the European economy, they will deal with it without it, which may be good for everyone, including Russia, if it really “focuses”, as he promised in another election article. Understand what it means.